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Life on Earth likely started 4.1 billion years ago
Oct 20, 2015 (SPX)
UCLA geochemists have found evidence that life likely existed on Earth at least 4.1 billion years ago - 300 million years earlier than previous research suggest...
Where to look for life
Oct 08, 2015 (SPX)
Powerful telescopes are coming soon. Where exactly shall we point them? Astronomers with the University of Washington's Virtual Planetary Laboratory have create...
Where to Search for Life? 'Habitability Index' Devised as a Guide
Oct 06, 2015 (SPX)
Astronomers with the University of Washington's Virtual Planetary Laboratory have created a way to compare and rank exoplanets to help prioritize which of the t...
Study adds to evidence that viruses are alive
Sep 28, 2015 (SPX)
new analysis supports the hypothesis that viruses are living entities that share a long evolutionary history with cells, researchers report. The study offers th...
Electron transport between species discovered in deep-sea research
Sep 19, 2015 (UPI)
Researchers at the California Institute of Technology have discovered two microbial species capable of sharing the energy needed to consume methane through elec...
Advanced alien civilizations rare or absent in the local Universe
Sep 16, 2015 (SPX)
Advanced civilisations harnessing energies on galactic scales (so-called Kardashev Type III civilisations) are expected to be detectable in the mid-Infrared par...
SETI reborn: The New Search for Intelligent Life
Sep 11, 2015 (SPX)
A new influx of money has saved the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) from collapse, but what does the future hold for our quest to discover intel...
Only above-water microbes play a role in cave development
Sep 03, 2015 (SPX)
Only the microbes located above the water's surface contribute to the development of hydrogen-sulfide-rich caves, suggests an international team of researchers....
Interstellar seeds could create oases of life
Aug 29, 2015 (SPX)
We only have one example of a planet with life: Earth. But within the next generation, it should become possible to detect signs of life on planets orbiting dis...
Comet Impacts May Have Led to Life on Earth
Aug 19, 2015 (SPX)
Comet impact on Earth are synonymous with great extinctions, but now research presented at the Goldschmidt geochemistry conference in Prague shows that early co...
Researchers Use 'Seafloor Gardens' to Switch on Light Bulb
Aug 07, 2015 (JPL)
One of the key necessities for life on our planet is electricity. That's not to say that life requires a plug and socket, but everything from shrubs to ants to ...
Volcanic bacteria take minimalist approach to survival
Aug 05, 2015 (SPX)
New research by scientists at New Zealand's University of Otago and GNS Science is helping to solve the puzzle of how bacteria are able to live in nutrient-star...
Vatican sceptical about close encounters of the third kind
Aug 05, 2015 (AFP)
The recent discovery of an Earth twin has boosted chances there is intelligent life on other planets. But while Pope Francis's telescope scans the starlit skies...
NASA researchers find frozen recipe for extraterrestrial vitamin
Jul 28, 2015 (SPX)
Vitamin B3 could have been made on icy dust grains in space, and later delivered to Earth by meteorites and comets, according to new laboratory experiments by a...
Signboards in Space
Jul 28, 2015 (SPX)
The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) is expanding. Dominated for decades by the search for radio transmissions from aliens, SETI has recently inc...
Is science drawing closer to an alien world?
Jul 24, 2015 (AFP)
NASA's discovery of Earth-like exoplanet Kepler-452b, nicknamed "Earth 2.0", has social media buzzing about the chances of finding a faraway world, possibly wit...
Barnacles Explain Life at the Extreme
Jul 22, 2015 (SPX)
Barnacles - a type of marine crustacean - are highly adaptable animals. Unlike many other groups that prefer quieter waters, they like areas with a lot of activ...
Why we live on Earth and not Venus
Jul 22, 2015 (SPX)
Compared to its celestial neighbours Venus and Mars, Earth is a pretty habitable place. So how did we get so lucky? A new study sheds light on the improbable ev...
Airbus DS to build JUICE, ESA's next life-tracker inside the Solar System
Jul 21, 2015 (SPX)
The European Space Agency (ESA) has selected Airbus Defence and Space as the prime contractor to develop and build the JUICE (JUpiter ICy moons Explorer) spacec...
Lick Observatory Joins Massive Search for Intelligent Life in the Universe
Jul 21, 2015 (SPX)
Internet investor Yuri Milner and physicist Stephen Hawking announced a $100 Million Breakthrough Prize Initiative to dramatically reinvigorate the search for i...
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